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Perspective

«the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective»
Author: Arnold Beisser | About: Perspective | Keywords: humorous, perspective, tragic
«You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.»
«Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.»
Author: Julian Green | About: Perspective
«After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn?t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked?as I am surprisingly often?why I bother to get up in the mornings.»
«Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.»
«The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish as to believe that there is such a phenomenon as a strictly truthful person; the envious see envy in every soul; the miser thinks everybody is eager to get his money;...and the abandoned sensualist looks upon the saint as a hypocrite»
Author: James Allen (Statesman) | About: Perspective | Keywords: misers
«The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.»
«It's amazing the life that I?m living today, and I count my blessings every day for the giftsthat God has given me.»
Author: Sasha Azevedo (Actress, Athlete, Model) | About: Perspective | Keywords: amazing, blessings
«What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.»